NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The switch is almost complete for email, and is underway for most enterprise applications, such as customer relationship management (CRM) systems. . Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years. We Need to Have a Meeting!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. They hope to reach out to residents and spark conversations about philanthropic work and to give advice and assistance to residents who want to advance charitable causes. What's your advice?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

You could also watch a video cast on the web as well as in Second Life. So, I attended via Second Life where Rebecca Nesson was the in-world moderator and she was also at the real life event. In Second Life, the chat was very rich and made us wonder how much the RL participants were missing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

O’Rielly has a new online series about Women in Technology , with some really great articles. OK, no, I’m still not convinced, but here’s an interesting take on Second Life from Frogloop. I’m developing a class about WEB 2.0 He even asks “What would Jesus do?&# Worth a read!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2015

This is the reality for thousands of 10-year-old dyslexic children in the French school system. What is so special about Ordyslexie? The program also gives the children an organizational system that helps them automatically save their work and come back to it if they get distracted. A Simple Solution for a Complex Problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Deborah Finn's thoughts about limiting the membership to nonprofit tech workers whose e-mail addresses are originating from a.org and whose organization is a 501c3. Robb Cottingham tells us about a brew-haha brewing in the nonprofit social change space in Canada. And overheard at the TechSoup Second Life meeting this week.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Companies are exploring online virtual platforms such as second life, Minecraft, Unity, etc. Learning Management Systems (LMS) are also incorporating responsive designs to provide the most suitable content experience based on the screen size and resolution of learner’s device.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

@NancyWhite of Full Circle Associates suggested using a Google Group , a blog, or Moodle, a free, open source course management system. santhonys of AShowalter.com suggested using the haiku Learning Management System , which on first glance looks pretty easy to use and ranges in price from free-$30/month. Pretty cool, huh?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

She is the head of information systems at the University of Reading in the UK. We've participated in online collaboration experiments in Second Life and we are friends on Facebook. She spoke about how much our support makes a difference in her life. Meet Shirley Williams. Her blog is called RedGloo.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Bates has a primer for nonprofits interested in Second Life. Just remember that actions in SL can affect your life in the really real world. Walk Score rates your neighborhood's walkability and maps just about everything of interest near you, from bookstores to bars. This guy decided to do something about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media. I believe that the tools are transient, the buzzwords will change, but the value system embedded in these 4Cs is here to stay. What About You? So, let’s look at these 4Cs in some detail. The First C: Content.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Sure, you wanted to be ahead of the game, but you got tied up rockin out on Monkey Island in Second Life. Its good to think about. I am a consultant and graduate student in complex systems and wanted an illustration of "self organization." Click here to download the guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process. Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. as an excellent example of systems thinking that needed in the nonprofit techspace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

There are many sparks for conversation about the points raised. "We can't talk about transparency, accountability and honest evaluation without addressing the contentious topic of failure. Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development. I so need a better system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Youth Connection, Part I: Field Building with University Students Moderated by Katie Salen (Parsons, the New School of Design) Description: Aside from creating "future leaders," let's talk about what University students are already contributing to social change gaming by creating a new kind of gaming environment.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. In Second Life, I am not an expert--but many of our virtual exhibit designers are.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Twitter, however, is distinctive in that it reserves its own name for its tagging system; "hashtags." Check out TechSoup's Nonprofits in Second Life Delicious group page for an example of how multiple users can collaborate with social bookmarking. A Taxonomic Tree of Philanthropy.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

The online platform has two parts: a website , where all projects originate, and a Second Life presence ("The Tech" in Second Life), where participants can communicate in real-time, share ideas, and build virtual prototypes. I know that Second Life can be a clunky, frustrating experience.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Sure, you wanted to be ahead of the game, but you got tied up rockin out on Monkey Island in Second Life. Its good to think about. I am a consultant and graduate student in complex systems and wanted an illustration of "self organization." Click here to download the guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

It made me think about a post-it note from almost ten years ago! " Marc responded to my comment/question on the post about he finds the time to experiment. Myspace, along with Second Life and things like MissionFish are good examples of "experimentation. The honest truth about how I make time for it is.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. Today, an interview with Shelley Bernstein , the Manager of Information Systems at the Brooklyn Museum, and the engine behind that museum’s fabulous forays into Web 2.0. We learned a lot about graffiti from Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. Lucy Bernholz who has been thinking deeply about the topic, shares her thoughts. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

A few blogosphere posts offering advice about online safety and what you can do help stop cyberbullying can be found here. Are you thinking about what sessions to attend or arranging to meetings with colleagues? The post goes on to describe a Digital Asset Management System. For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. It's moved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. Also, be sure to read Sean's summary of a recent article in the Wall Street Journal about how a new generation is reinventing fundraising. The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

About five years ago, Brazil violated American intellectual property agreements by producing an AIDS drug for a fraction of the cost of the American company who developed it. There are also provisions against libel and slander, which allow you to recover damages from anyone who misrepresents you or makes false claims about your organization.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

On Monday, David Klevan (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and I spoke at the MAAM Creating Exhibitions conference about Web 2.0 In most cases, the audience wasn’t asking about money: they were asking about time. initiative, you should think about what (and who) it's going to require over its lifespan, not just pre-release.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

How about Digg ? In systems where expert users have significant knowledge or control in comparison to newcomers, I guess it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that these amateur experts might want to get some money out of it by becoming consultants. And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

In February 2001, AAM commissioned a study about the trustworthiness of museums and found that "Almost 9 out of 10 Americans (87%) find museums to be one of the most trustworthy or a trustworthy source of information among a wide range of choices. Be honest about mistakes. Here's something to be proud of. But here's the problem.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

It has featured celebrities like Carol Burnett to deliver messages about smoking cessation and the need for clean air. Institutions like the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) are starting to webcast live coverage of certain board proceedings. For other nonprofits, theyre off to a good start. c) Trust your gut.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

How about Digg ? In systems where expert users have significant knowledge or control in comparison to newcomers, I guess it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that these amateur experts might want to get some money out of it by becoming consultants. And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Called “Web 2.0 – New Outreach and Fundraising Techniques,” the topic of this workshop is something every nonprofit marketing manager and online communications professional wants to talk about. Tim started by seeing who was already talking about Oxfam. On Second Life : Tim and Carie both say stay away. One at a time.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

This year’s event will have me quite busy so I’m hoping that by putting out some of my plans, we can find time to connect so I can learn more about your work! What : Online events aren’t only about having a conversation on your own website. Thursday, April 8, 2010. When : 10:30 a.m. When : 10:30 a.m.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

When I talk with museum people about virtual worlds, the conversation usually centers on Second Life. But Second Life isn't the biggest, and it isn't the fastest growing. These virtual worlds are, as one father put it, "the cuddly G-rated version of Second Life." And they're booming.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

I whole-heartedly support the goals that motivate the hire--to connect with visitors online and onsite in more meaningful relationships--but I worry about focusing such a broad mandate into the tiny point of a single individual. The animal keepers run their own blog about the crazy hijinks of their furry team.

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